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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by sharpiewater@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I went to a Gamestop the other day, and they had a little section for pre-owned games for older systems (think Xbox360, PS2, DS, etc). I was perusing and grabbed some games, but I noticed something, the cases that have the XBOX360 games have a giant "RETRO GAMING" on it in the centre. So I am like wtf, I grew up with the XBOX360, what the hell do they mean "retro".

So I went and asked like friends and other people if the XBOX360 is retro now, and basically everyone was like "yeah". I was talking to my EX about it and she was like "the xbox came out in 2005/6. There is more time between us and the xbox360 than there was between the xbox and the SNES when the xbox came out. Was the SNES "retro" when the xbox360 came out?"

I am like not ready, not willing to accept the XBOX360 as retro. Because that is saying my thing that I grew up with is "retro" or "old" now and im not ready to accept that because im not ready to be old.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Music and games aren't quite the same deal. If you need specialized equipment to play a game, it's retro.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's just the cord that came with the system, nothing very special about it. And it's still perfectly compatible with modern TVs

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Modern TVs in the US don't have the coaxial RF jack...

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I bought a brand new TV around Christmas and it came with one.

An adaptor costs like 10-15 bucks anyway

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Interesting! It's absent on my Vizio and Samsung although they are nearly a decade old now. I know over-the-air RF signals are still broadcast but they're digital now.

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